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CNN:
Poll: 6-in-10 oppose bills like the North Carolina transgender bathroom law — Washington (CNN)Americans broadly oppose laws that would require transgender people to use facilities that correspond with their gender at birth rather than their gender identity, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll …
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Joshua Berlinger / CNN:
Showdown looms over North Carolina's bathroom bill — (CNN)It's deadline day for North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory. — The U.S. Justice Department sent his office a letter Wednesday claiming that the state's controversial bathroom law is in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
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Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
Dozens of Parents Sue DOE Over Illinois Transgender Bathroom Law
Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:
Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News — Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network's influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project.
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
‘I think he could come apart’ — Mark Salter, the most prominent and most defiant Republican to announce his support of Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, thinks the 2016 campaign could literally — no joke — drive the billionaire developer insane. — Salter, one of McCain's top aides during …
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Raw Story
Reuters:
Democrats gird for fight with Trump in U.S. Rust Belt states — CLEVELAND/NEW YORK - Bracing for a general election fight with Donald Trump, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and her allies are putting resources into industrial states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania to try …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
He'll Do It His Way — Don't expect a New Trump.
Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Is A Progressive Democrat, Despite What You May Have Heard
Hillary Clinton Is A Progressive Democrat, Despite What You May Have Heard
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New York Times
Los Angeles Times:
High school yearbook misidentifies Muslim student as ‘Isis Phillips’ — A high school yearbook is supposed to be a keepsake, but for a Muslim student in Rancho Cucamonga it will be a painful reminder of being misidentified as “Isis Phillips” in a photo that showed her smiling and wearing a hijab.
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
GOP operatives on the prowl for secret Clinton transcripts — Republican operatives are scouring the country for transcripts, notes or secret recordings of Hillary Clinton — 's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs in hopes of finding damaging material for the general election.
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Political Wire
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: U.S. can never default because it prints money — Donald Trump assailed the media on Monday for what he said was a misrepresentation of his comments on debt, rejecting the notion that he would have the United States default on his debt. — “I said if we can buy back government debt as a discount.
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Ben Rhodes:
How We Advocated for the Iran Deal — In recent years, few things have been as exhaustively debated or written about than the Iran deal. — That debate reignited this week after a long article about me included a section about the Iran deal. There are many issues raised in an article of this length …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Mediaite, The Last Tradition, Politico and Washington Free Beacon
Bobby Jindal / Wall Street Journal:
I'm Voting Trump, Warts and All — I stand by all my criticisms of the New Yorker, but the stakes for the country are too great to elect Clinton. — Some of my fellow Republicans have declared they will never, under any circumstances, vote for Donald Trump.
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New York Times and Althouse
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Michael Walsh / New York Post:
Donald Trump is going to troll his way to victory
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama itches for Trump fight — President Obama can't wait to take on Donald Trump — Obama has been largely sidelined in the presidential contest, a last-year officeholder with high approval ratings who has repeatedly shown he likes to spar with political foes.
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Heat Street
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The GOP's electoral-map problem is not about Trump. It's about demographics.
The GOP's electoral-map problem is not about Trump. It's about demographics.
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Outside the Beltway and Booman Tribune
Associated Press:
Philippine mayor ahead in unofficial count for president — MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A brash mayor known for sex jokes and a pledge to end crime within six months — by killing suspected criminals if necessary — strongly led an unofficial vote count in Monday's Philippine presidential election …
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Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service — Social media firm cuts access to Dataminr, a service used to identify unfolding terror attacks, political unrest — Twitter Inc. cut off U.S. intelligence agencies from access to a service that sifts through the entire output …
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Washington Post, Business Insider, Hot Air, Gizmodo, The Verge, Mashable and New York Magazine
New York Daily News:
New York nail salons must pay $2M for cheating workers out of fair wages — Gov. Cuomo has ordered nail salons to hand over $2 million to hundreds of ripped off workers. — Cuomo created the Nail Salon Industry Enforcement Task Force a year ago to crack down on widespread abuses at nail shops …
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New York Magazine and Raw Story
Breitbart:
London's Iconic Red Buses To Declare ‘Glory To Allah’ — Britain's largest Islamic charity says it wants to “break down barriers” and portray Islam positively by launching a new advertising campaign which will slap the phrase “glory to Allah” on the side of London buses.
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Cashing in: Illegal immigrants get $1,261 more welfare than American families, $5,692 vs. $4,431 — Illegal immigrant households receive an average of $5,692 in federal welfare benefits every year, far more than the average “native” American household, at $4,431, according to a new report on the cost of immigration released Monday.
Dara Lind / Vox:
Why liberals love to fantasize about moving to Canada (and how to do it for real) — Maybe, at first, you were joking. Maybe you've caught yourself since then wondering if it would truly be such a bad idea. — After all, America may well elect Donald J. Trump president in November.
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WSAZ-TV:
Man charged in attack on W.Va. State Senate candidate attack — LOGAN COUNTY, W.Va (WSAZ) — A man is behind bars tonight after allegedly beating a man running for the West Virginia Senate. Jonathan Porter, 41, of Logan County is charged with felony destruction of property, malicious assault and attempt to commit a felony.
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